Bad wikidata descriptions will hopefully lead to a bunch of edits from people like myself who can't stand badly worded sentences. Do it. Create a new editing path! :) it's easier to correct something in my opinion then to write something new from scratch. On 9 Feb 2015 13:52, "Dmitry Brant" dbrant@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sure, I won't deny that it would still need a lot of work, but I still see it as a logical next step.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Eh, please don't - have you tried it for languages other than English? 09 февр. 2015 г. 5:55 пользователь "Dmitry Brant" dbrant@wikimedia.org написал:
Awesome! I would love to see the output of AutoDesc be returned by the
API, when a manual description is not available. I would also be a strong proponent of fully auto-generated descriptions for all articles. (The data is right there!)
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
See https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc for the new API described in the post. Interesting at least as a fallback to human-written descriptions...
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Manual descriptions are, in the vast majority of cases, a waste of volunteer time. Alternative: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265
On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 17:37:42 Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi, How does that help ? The point is exactly that there is no point to descriptions. Why iterate on a dog it will still be a mutt. Thanks, GerardM
On 8 February 2015 at 14:07, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
I'd rather see it not as something terribly disappointing, but as an opportunity to find a way to fill item descriptions more efficiently.
Basically, to find some cycles to resolve https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64695 בתאריך 8 בפבר 2015 10:33, "Gerard Meijssen" < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> כתב:
> Hoi, > I understand that item descriptions are going to be used in a mobile > app. In my opinion that is seriously disappointing because it is not > realistic to expect enough coverage in any language. Particularly in the > small languages it will not be really useful. > > My question is: we have had automated descriptions for a long time. > What is it that they makes that they are not used.? > > Thanks, > GerardM > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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